Andy Warhol, Triple Elvis [Ferus Type] (1963), similar to the one at SFMOMA, sold for $81.9 million in 2014. Courtesy of Christie's.

The new SFMOMA, with its ambitious $300 million expansion, has been open for barely two weeks, but apparently that's long enough to fall victim to a freak accident. A museumgoer tripped and hit the surface of Andy Warhol's 1963 Triple Elvis [Ferus Type] painting on June 2 while visiting the new San Francisco museum.

Kron4 reports that the painting was removed from the gallery on Friday morning, and it is currently in the museum's conservation studio, where it is being thoroughly evaluated.

The museum stated it wouldn't be issuing a press release regarding the incident, but according to Kron4, conservators think the contact between the elbow of the museum goer and the painting was “minimal."

The work is similar to one that sold in November 2014 at Christie's New York for $81.9 million, according to the artnet Price Database. That work came from the state funded collection of North Rhine-Westphalia, and was owned by the German casino conglomerate WestSpiel, a subsidiary of the state bank of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW Bank), which has been accruing losses for years.

I've seen a lot of Warhol's work in person. His experimental short films are kind of interesting, but I think his reputation and the celebrity culture that surrounded him precedes the quality of his output as an artist.